The Indigenous people of the Chittagong Hills (CHT) are forbidden to talk to outsiders without security forces being present according to a new Bangladesh Government directive. Outsiders includes people of their own country as well as foreigners. It ...

Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission holds a news conference on violence in Rangamati and human rights situation in the three hill districts at National Press Club in Dhaka on Saturday. — New Age photo International Chittagong Hill Tracts ...

Though the Karnaphuli River, the lifeline of Chittagong, is not enlisted as a trans-boundary river, a new research publication identifies it as a cross-border river and claims that there are a few more common rivers which are thought to have ...

Members of Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday arrest five suspected militants from Lotmoni in Banshkhali of Chittaong along with AK-22 rifles, revolvers, pistol, LGs and huge cache of ammunition. — New Age photo Rapid Action Battalion recovered ...

The Chittagong Hill Tracts International Commission has expressed grave concern over the home ministry order banning any unsupervised meeting or talking with the adivasis and restricting foreigners' access to the hill districts. Terming it ...

Eminent citizens have slammed the recent government order banning Bangladeshi or foreign individuals or organisations meeting and talking unsupervised with indigenous people of the hill districts. The order states that such interaction must take ...

IF you work on adivasi rights in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in some capacity, you may be familiar with an uncanny feeling that you are being followed. That your steps are being monitored, assessed and filed away for future reference, that your ...

A near deserted Patenga sea beach in Chittagong, a scenario prevailing since the ongoing blockade of the BNP-led 20-party alliance was enforced early January prompting prospective visitors to stay put and squashing tourism businesses' expectations ...